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  1. A Spring of Songs! A Salute to Rienzi’s Founders and Their Love of Music

    Jan 11, 2019 - His music has a warm, cascading, full-string sound perfect for setting a mood or atmosphere while entertaining. On Broadway The Mastersons produced several plays and a Broadway musical titled Bajour. The hi-fi is located in a built-in space of the Living Room, along with a turntable and LP records, which were the focus of the project. Their musical patronage inspired our spring exhibition Broadway’s Amazing Mastersons, which opens March 2.

  2. Radical Ink: “Beautifully Packed Dynamite” of El Techo de la Ballena

    Jan 9, 2019 - Edmundo Aray and Rodolfo Izaguire foldout designed for El Techo de la Ballena, Rayado sobre el techo (Scratched on the Roof), n° 2, May 1963, Hirsch Library, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.   On view in the exhibition are a selection of texts produced by one of the most radical artistic groups of the 20th century, El Techo de la Ballena (The Roof of the Whale). Now on View The publications—which one commentator aptly referred to as “a pack of beautifully packed dynamite”—promoted the group’s anarchic, violent, and aggressive stance toward politics and culture.

  3. “A New Way of Seeing” with Vincent van Gogh

    Jan 8, 2019 - Van Gogh’s Life Like the exhibition, the documentary Vincent van Gogh: A New Way of Seeing, screening on February 1 & 2, surveys Van Gogh’s story from his earliest work up to his final days in France, using letters to family See the Armchair Travel presentation on February 1 & 2. The exhibition “Vincent van Gogh: His Life in Art” is on view March 10–June 27. In anticipation of the spring exhibition, Armchair Travel—a film series featuring documentaries about hit exhibitions from around the world—shares a look at Van Gogh’s fascinating and deeply troubled world.

  4. Royal Rivals: Queen Elizabeth I & Mary, Queen of Scots

    Jan 4, 2019 - Portrait of Elizabeth I Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, Queen Elizabeth I (“The Ditchley Portrait”), c. 1592, oil on canvas, National Portrait Gallery, London. The painting dates from the period of her marriage (1558–60) to France’s King François II, who left Mary a widow when she was just 18 years old. Mary was a Roman Catholic and cousin of the English queen, Elizabeth I. The only surviving child of Henry VIII, Elizabeth I inherited the throne in 1558.

  5. Happy New Year! A Look at 2018 in Numbers

    Jan 1, 2019 - Hit “play” below for a look back at some of the numbers that added up to a great year. 

  6. Dogs Rule! Find “Royals” Doggie Day Inspiration in the Pets of “Tudors to Windsors”

    Dec 26, 2018 - A portrait of Mary of Modena, an Italian princess who was the second wife of King James II, includes a small pup that looks like an Italian Greyhound—a reference to Mary’s homeland. Willem Wissing, Mary of Modena, c. 1685, oil on canvas, National Portrait Gallery, London. National Portrait Gallery, London Today’s royal family is known for a love of corgis that started when King George VI owned the family’s first pet corgi in 1933, leading to a royal obsession: The family has owned more than

  7. All Aboard the Texas-Inspired Train Display at Christmas Village

    Dec 21, 2018 - TB: I like the Cadillac Ranch section. I think the cars’ colorful irreverence really captures a special quality of Texas. This year, with the new Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation Center for Conservation, we could set up in a number of spaces, including a fully outfitted woodshop, under one roof. Do you have a favorite part of the new display? I can’t take credit for crushing and airbrushing the graffiti on the cars, but I did get to cut their hoods off on the band saw and set them up for display.

  8. Rediscovering a Velázquez: The Attribution of “Kitchen Maid”

    Dec 18, 2018 - One of the Museum’s biggest announcements of 2018 involves a 17th-century painting that, for years, was on view at Rienzi with a label that read “In the style of Diego Velázquez.” Hit “play” below to watch Bomford discuss Kitchen Maid, on view on the second floor of the Beck Building—alongside a new label that reads “Attributed to Diego Velázquez.”

  9. Happy Birthday, Xul Solar: A Closer Look at the Argentinean Artist’s Work

    Dec 14, 2018 - From the beginning, the artist desired to “found a new religion on my art and create a world for my followers,” as he wrote in his personal journal in 1912. A fusion of Portuguese and Spanish, Neo-Creole also incorporated English, French, German, Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit roots. A new writing system accompanied the language, which he deemed as magical and perfect. The anniversary of his birth offers an opportunity to take a closer look at his intriguing work based on his study of music, astrology, complex theories of language and writing, and the spiritual beliefs of numerous world religions

  10. Top 12 Wintry Works of Art, Selected by MFAH Curatorial Staff

    Dec 13, 2018 - —Julie Timte, curatorial administrative assistant    John George Brown, Curling;—A Scottish Game, at Central Park, 1862 When I look at this painting, I am reminded of my first trip to New York City as a little girl But where does the ball go when you play on a frozen river? A highlight of our trip was ice skating in Central Park.